Fighting Suicide with Science

UNH grad student in nation's first psychological autopsy examiner

Michael Staley didn’t plan to be the first person in America to have his job, but his life experiences were preparing him for exactly that.

Staley, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UNH, has been making headlines for his work as Utah’s psychological autopsy examiner, a post in the Office of the Medical Examiner that was created by the legislature in direct response to the state’s suicide problem.